Welcome to "The House on Mango Street" Teaching Unit. This is created by Ashley Parker and Dana Gibson. We have enjoyed putting this project together. We hope you will be able to find something that will help you teach this great coming-of-age novel. Enjoy!!!
Work Cited
1.) Ciscernos, Sandra, "Do You Know Me?: I Wrote The House on Mango Street." The Americans Review.Vol.15,No,1, Spring 1987,77-79
2.) Gomez Quinones, Juan. Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
3.) Klein, Dianne. "Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros" The English Journal. Vol. 81, No.5> September 1992, 21-26.
4.) Novas, Himilce, Everything You Need to know about Latino History. New York: Plume, 1994.
5.) Shorris, Earl. Latinos: A Biography of the People. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.
The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros
Welcome to "The House on Mango Street" Teaching Unit. This is created by Ashley Parker and Dana Gibson. We have enjoyed putting this project together. We hope you will be able to find something that will help you teach this great coming-of-age novel. Enjoy!!!
Ashley Parker's collection of lesson plans and original lesson plan for Grade 9
D.D. Gibson
There are several lesson plans that can be taught at any high school level. You just have to modify what grade you will be teaching.
Web English teacher is were the lesson plans can be purchased. You can get great ideas from this website about teaching this novel.
http://www.webenglishteacher.com/cisneros.html
Yale University link is free and reusable.
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1999/1/99.01.02.x.html
Teacher Vision has numerous activities that can be used.
http://www.teachervision.fen.com/fiction/activity/5952.html
Lesson Planet has numerous activities and reusable downloads that are worth it!
http://www.lessonplanet.com/search?keywords=The+House+on+Mango+Street&media=lesson&rating=4&_kk=the%20house%20on%20mango%20street%20%2Blesson%20plan&_kt=7dd548e7-6414-44b4-a465-4eefb3e21586&gclid=CKigxMuT6K8CFUHDtgodfjb43A
This is a Wikipedia Link to the author and about her novel.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_on_Mango_Street
D. D. Gibson original lesson plan
Work Cited
1.) Ciscernos, Sandra, "Do You Know Me?: I Wrote The House on Mango Street." The Americans Review.Vol.15,No,1, Spring 1987,77-79
2.) Gomez Quinones, Juan. Chicano Politics: Reality and Promise 1940-1990. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990.
3.) Klein, Dianne. "Coming of Age in Novels by Rudolfo Anaya and Sandra Cisneros" The English Journal. Vol. 81, No.5> September 1992, 21-26.
4.) Novas, Himilce, Everything You Need to know about Latino History. New York: Plume, 1994.
5.) Shorris, Earl. Latinos: A Biography of the People. New York: W.W. Norton, 1992.